Economic and Business Information

2015-08-07

Cape Verde should develop fishing, tourism: Chinese former official

A former senior official from China has called for Cape Verde to develop its fishing and tourism sectors to create new jobs in the archipelago; Cape Verdean newspaper A Semana reported this week.

2015-08-06

China’s Alibaba mulls introducing B2B platform in Brazil

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is studying the possibility of introducing its business-to-business (B2B) platform in Brazil, providing more opportunities for Brazilian firms to tap into the Chinese market.

2015-08-06

Portugal’s Malo Clinic to set up dentistry teaching faculty in China

The Portuguese group Malo Clinic has been invited to set up a faculty of dental medicine in a university that is being built in the Chinese city of Tianjin.

2015-08-06

China aims to strengthen parliamentary co-operation with Angola

China hopes to enhance parliamentary co-operation with Angola, said Gao Kexiang, the Chinese Ambassador to that African country. Mr Gao, who is at the end of his diplomatic mission there, was speaking on Wednesday.

2015-08-05

Brazilian beef sales to China poised to grow 20-fold

The Brazilian Government expects its beef exports to China this year to surge 20-fold compared to three years earlier, China Daily, a state-run Chinese newspaper, reported this week.

2015-08-05

Portugal to initiate Guangzhou consular services in October: official

Portugal is to have a consular diplomat in post in Guangzhou, the capital city of the Chinese province of Guangdong, from October.

2015-08-05

Angola’s currency to be accepted in China

The Angolan currency, the kwanza, will be accepted in China, announced Angola’s Minister of Commerce, Rosa Pacavira.

2015-08-04

Brazil entrepreneurs’ confidence in trade outlook lowest since 2011

The confidence of business people in Brazil’s trade sector is at its lowest level since March 2011, the country’s news agency Brasil reported on Monday.

2015-08-04

Angolan official calls for Chinese investment in agricultural sector

A provincial official in Angola has called for more Chinese investment in the country’s agricultural sector to enhance food productivity, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

2015-08-04

Mozambique hails medical co-operation with China

Medical co-operation between China and Mozambique is “one of the best” such international partnerships on public health, Mozambican Deputy Minister of Health, Mouzinho Saíde, told Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua.

2015-08-03

China’s official factory gauge at 50 in July

Factory activity in China slipped to a five-month low in July, but activity in the services sector continued to rise, an official survey showed.

2015-08-03

China co-operates with Guinea Bissau in social housing plan

China will take part in a plan by Guinea Bissau for the construction of social housing in the country’s capital, Bissau, the Guinean Minister of Public Affairs, José António Almeida, told Portuguese news agency Lusa on Saturday.